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so which side is right? is romney right or mitt right? >> well i loved newt chronicling the rest of the day as president. but he hasn't gone the campaign figured out. you look at super-tuesday, gingrich may be able to rack up some delegates. but mitt romney has restored though luster of his inevitable mantel. if gingrich continues perking along will be buried the a barrage of negative advertising. the florida republicans didn't seem to mind all of the negative advertising. >> it is interesting, because -- we'll talk about the money later, and myth has more money, et cetera right? >> right. but newt has decided he is going to a different tactic. basically saying it is us versus them. let me play the clip for you guys. >> i am running, our children and son and laws joined us in this decision, because we believe it is cheating our grandchildren to not insist on fundamental basic change in washington even if the establishment doesn't like it. >> in this speech over and over tonight gingrich talked about how he was the anti-establishment candi
so which side is right? is romney right or mitt right? >> well i loved newt chronicling the rest of the day as president. but he hasn't gone the campaign figured out. you look at super-tuesday, gingrich may be able to rack up some delegates. but mitt romney has restored though luster of his inevitable mantel. if gingrich continues perking along will be buried the a barrage of negative advertising. the florida republicans didn't seem to mind all of the negative advertising. >> it is...
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is mitt romney right or wrong? >> i can see the argument in 2008 when the government was blind-sided by all the problems that happen and all these companies were in trouble, lehman brothers and citigroup and goldman sachs and bear stearns, i can almost see the rationale of saving these companies temporarily. not only did they not go in and fire all the people responsible for this fraud, they continued to support the company for years after it was back on their feet. that's the most inexcusable part. they kept supporting it with billions and billions of dollars of low interest loans after that and that's the real problem. >> so basically, there were no strings attached, and you know i think a lot of people look at that and from a simplistic point of view. they are all outstanding citizens making these contracts because they're geniuses. tell the people watching at home why you think bank of america among the others actually does fraud, things that are criminal and is not normal business that they should be rewarded
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mitt romney is right in the thick of this deeply misogenistc policy. >> eliot: i remember when i first heard it several months ago i was shocked. i have lived to a certain extent in the political world i think that number has to be expressed and explained at a broader level. 32,000 pregnancies from rape every year makes this issue very powerful and pointed. i hope that gets out there and is discussed. it was shocking to me. >> it really is, and it's an indication of the level of violence against women generally. we have a wonderful violence against women act, and it has dramatically reduced the incidents of violence and sexual assault, but it has no way eliminated it, and women remain vulnerable to sexual assault. as we know the fbi defines rape as penetration however slight without consent. it's all about consent. that's the right way to understand it. not the way that todd akin and paul ryan want to understand it as it's some how forcible. i think that these men not understanding that is probably what makes them so incredibly dangerous. they refuse to acknowledge the full humanity of
mitt romney is right in the thick of this deeply misogenistc policy. >> eliot: i remember when i first heard it several months ago i was shocked. i have lived to a certain extent in the political world i think that number has to be expressed and explained at a broader level. 32,000 pregnancies from rape every year makes this issue very powerful and pointed. i hope that gets out there and is discussed. it was shocking to me. >> it really is, and it's an indication of the level of...
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although it seems to be leaning toward mitt romney right now. do you think the president made any ground up last night? >> i think he certainly did. look, he seemed like the president. he seemed like the president of the united states in full grasp of the fact. mitt romney seemed like somebody with 15 minutes of material trying to spread it out over 45 minutes. he seem to have this wonderful gift to string together words that mean nothing. i wrote down a couple of them as i was watching with my family. first answer, we need a comprehensive and robust strategy and we need to coordinate with our friends to address the rising tide of tumult. what does that mean? how can somebody who claim to be the president and give out vacuous nonsense like that? >> eliot: let me ask you this. there's no question that over the last several weeks florida has been moving toward mitt romney. what do you ascribe that to? the unemployment rate there. is it 8.7? can the president remedy that? >> well, i think that it's been more than anything, the impact of the lies co
although it seems to be leaning toward mitt romney right now. do you think the president made any ground up last night? >> i think he certainly did. look, he seemed like the president. he seemed like the president of the united states in full grasp of the fact. mitt romney seemed like somebody with 15 minutes of material trying to spread it out over 45 minutes. he seem to have this wonderful gift to string together words that mean nothing. i wrote down a couple of them as i was watching...
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romney rallies the right by pandering to the base. by picking paul ryan about by lashing out against obama care. by dog whistling to the racists with his birth certificate jokes. just in the last few days, he endorsed iowa representative steve king, for example. the guy steve king who doesn't know if rape victims can get pregnant. he refers to immigrants as dogs. this weekend romney appeared with televangelist pat robertson in virginia. he gave this speech that was laced with religious references and questions about the president president's patriotism >> romney: we're a nation by god. one nation, indivisible i will not divide this nation. i will not abollize for america -- apologize for america abroad and i will not apologize for america here at home. >> jennifer: apologize. who's doing that? throw some of that red bheat out there to rally the base of your party. get tea partiers, evangelicals fired up, get them to the polls. that's rallying the right. suppressing the left is a last-ditch effort go it those first two tactics fail. so
romney rallies the right by pandering to the base. by picking paul ryan about by lashing out against obama care. by dog whistling to the racists with his birth certificate jokes. just in the last few days, he endorsed iowa representative steve king, for example. the guy steve king who doesn't know if rape victims can get pregnant. he refers to immigrants as dogs. this weekend romney appeared with televangelist pat robertson in virginia. he gave this speech that was laced with religious...
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wait a second romney/ryan! romney/ryan! there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> cenk: oh jesus, chanted that. that was awesomely awkward. let me give you one final piece of context. the candidate leading two or three weeks following the convention has gone on to win every modern presidential election every one of them over the last 15 presidential elections. we are two or three weeks from the last convention. in fact there is only 41 days left. that's it. you are not going to make up leads like that in ohio pennsylvania florida, states that you desperately need. barring a major miracle, not a game changer, not two game changers, maybe not even three game changers, barring a major miracle this thing is already over. everybody is going to tell you all of these things because they want you to keep watching, and of course you have to vote. if you don't vote, of course you will lose. but the reality is, as the match up goes, i'm a betting man, i know when i have lost or won a game, and in this case, mitt romney has loss. all right. now when we come back
wait a second romney/ryan! romney/ryan! there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> cenk: oh jesus, chanted that. that was awesomely awkward. let me give you one final piece of context. the candidate leading two or three weeks following the convention has gone on to win every modern presidential election every one of them over the last 15 presidential elections. we are two or three weeks from the last convention. in fact there is only 41 days left. that's it. you are not going to...
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right now looks like romney 41 santorum 38. and let me kick it first to mark brewer and mark did the democratic party encourage democrats to vote in this primary? >> absolutely not. that's our policy. this has been a real disaster for the mitt romney campaign and the republican party. this was supposed to be mitt romney's anointment. this was put together by the republican establishment, so romney could get anointed here tonight. if he wins at all, he will limp out of here very badly damaged having spent 6, $7 million on a state he should have considered a walk. so he needs to look in the mirror that the opposition to the auto rescue and the other things he has said and done was really his downfall tonight. >> i would like you all to listen to two sound bites from governor romney. one from 2007 and one from very recently about this issue of cross-over voting and whether he supports it or not? >> i think republicans have to recognize there's a real effort to kidnap our -- our primary process, and if he want republicans to nomina
right now looks like romney 41 santorum 38. and let me kick it first to mark brewer and mark did the democratic party encourage democrats to vote in this primary? >> absolutely not. that's our policy. this has been a real disaster for the mitt romney campaign and the republican party. this was supposed to be mitt romney's anointment. this was put together by the republican establishment, so romney could get anointed here tonight. if he wins at all, he will limp out of here very badly...
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so he's got a big checkbook right? let's compare him to mitt romney. mitt romney is incredibly rich. he has about $250 million and sheldon adelson is crushing him at $21 billion. he is 84 times richer than mitt romney. ok so, we did a little bit of math. now, if sheldon adelson is making the same amount of money as mitt romney is in relationship to their net worth he would actually be making $1.76 billion. now, if he paid 15% on that, he would be paying in taxes $264 million. remember president obama has the buffet rule, and he wins, then it would be 30% tax on all millionaires in which case sheldon adelson would have to pay $27.9 million. what's the difference? $265 million. that's the tax savings he would have under a republican president. that means he can give 26 times that amount and he would still come out ahead. that's the most conservative estimate. actually, if most of his money or all of his money were made in capitol gains newt gingrich wants to knock that down to 0%. adelson would safe $529 million a year if newt gingrich were president. ge
so he's got a big checkbook right? let's compare him to mitt romney. mitt romney is incredibly rich. he has about $250 million and sheldon adelson is crushing him at $21 billion. he is 84 times richer than mitt romney. ok so, we did a little bit of math. now, if sheldon adelson is making the same amount of money as mitt romney is in relationship to their net worth he would actually be making $1.76 billion. now, if he paid 15% on that, he would be paying in taxes $264 million. remember president...
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he will say look at this board right there. romney is only getting 48% of the vote. the majority of republican voters still don't want mitt romney. they are looking for somebody -- i'm not that person. no, it's not an argument that is going to persuade many people. if it were possible for a jeb bush to make that argument maybe a different dynamic. but mitt romney is now on a role. he has in the public mind won everything but south carolina. right now newt gingrich is flailing away without a meaningful argument. >> newt did say if this is going to go on for another six to eight months he says unless romney falls out. >> you have got to love the guy's bravado. a lightly different look. and crazier ideas each time arguably tonight. but newt gingrich is done. >> this is mitt romney -- i'm sorry newt gingrich last evening going after mitt romney. i mean it's -- he's -- the question is whether or not this really sells with voters. the newt that we have seen in the last week particularly getting more and more december per rate. >> every time we nominate a moderate, we lose.
he will say look at this board right there. romney is only getting 48% of the vote. the majority of republican voters still don't want mitt romney. they are looking for somebody -- i'm not that person. no, it's not an argument that is going to persuade many people. if it were possible for a jeb bush to make that argument maybe a different dynamic. but mitt romney is now on a role. he has in the public mind won everything but south carolina. right now newt gingrich is flailing away without a...
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and this came right on the heels of a large donation mitt romney received. from a miss dorat explorer. >> thursday. nothing happened. friday >> the jobs reports came out. and here is how that news was received by the romney camp. ♪ >> be quiet it's the unemployment numbers.
and this came right on the heels of a large donation mitt romney received. from a miss dorat explorer. >> thursday. nothing happened. friday >> the jobs reports came out. and here is how that news was received by the romney camp. ♪ >> be quiet it's the unemployment numbers.
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well, wherever mitt romney is right now, he's probably sweating buckets and it's got nothing to do with the weather. it is the dog days of summer for mitt. the flap over taxes the tea party, trip overseas, and now a batch of disappointing swing state polls. let's take a look at the numbers. take a look. today, a whole bunch of swing state polls came out. the latest survey is that president obama is leading mitt romney in pennsylvania, ohio, and florida all three of them for the first time over 50%. in ohio we're looking at 50% to 44%. by the way the same poll in late june has a bigger gap 47% for president obama. 38% for romney. florida, president obama is leading mitt romney 51% to 54%. in june that was obama, 45% and romney, 41%. and in pennsylvania president obama has a commanding 11-point lead over mitt romney, 53% over 42%. the president's lead was just six points in june. and there's more bad news for mitt romney out of my state of michigan. the latest epic poll has him down six points to president obama, 48% to 42%. but look at what it was in june. romney was up by one point. ver
well, wherever mitt romney is right now, he's probably sweating buckets and it's got nothing to do with the weather. it is the dog days of summer for mitt. the flap over taxes the tea party, trip overseas, and now a batch of disappointing swing state polls. let's take a look at the numbers. take a look. today, a whole bunch of swing state polls came out. the latest survey is that president obama is leading mitt romney in pennsylvania, ohio, and florida all three of them for the first time over...
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you're right it's surprising. it's more surprising if you're mitt romney, man. this is not just a good night for santorum. it is a good night you can't spin a win in two states and possibly a win in another as anything but good, but what this says to mitt romney and about mitt romney is the part that's really, really tough. >> okay, who's having a worse night, mitt romney because he's getting shellacked by rick sweater vest santorum? or newt gingrich, who's hardly on the board? >> well, definitely mitt romney. >> really? i think it's newt! >> newt's hardly on the board because he's not on the board. he knew going into february he he was setting this bar low. his whole campaign is right now concentrated on march 6 on super tuesday but mitt romney, he's running hard. he's winning, this is going to be my nomination. i want to prove that i'm the nominee. >> okay. i disgrerks and i'll item you why. you make a fair point a very good point. but on the other hand, newt's whole thing is, i'm the guy who's the anti-mitt romney. of course, him and santorum have been trying
you're right it's surprising. it's more surprising if you're mitt romney, man. this is not just a good night for santorum. it is a good night you can't spin a win in two states and possibly a win in another as anything but good, but what this says to mitt romney and about mitt romney is the part that's really, really tough. >> okay, who's having a worse night, mitt romney because he's getting shellacked by rick sweater vest santorum? or newt gingrich, who's hardly on the board? >>...
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headline, the ryan-romney ticket. i got it right. the rhyme-romney ticket double trouble for the g.o.p. the president is at the whitehouse today with a fairly light public schedule at any rate. he gets his daily briefing with the vice president today at 11 omming meeting with senior advisors shortly after that. nothing else on his public schedule. you know he is going to be very, very business behind the scenes. the briefing today will be at 12:30. it will be held today by deputy presses secretary josh earnest. the last dime he took over jay carney was taking his son to summer camp. so one has to think maybe jay carney is picking up his son from summer camp today. at any rate, earnest does a good job. he will be there today. anywherea tandennira tanden with join us as well as senator bernie sanders, so stick around. >> this is "the bill press show." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> hey. hello, everybody. good friday morning. it is august 17th. good to see you today. welcome to the "full-court press" here on current tv. good to have you wit
headline, the ryan-romney ticket. i got it right. the rhyme-romney ticket double trouble for the g.o.p. the president is at the whitehouse today with a fairly light public schedule at any rate. he gets his daily briefing with the vice president today at 11 omming meeting with senior advisors shortly after that. nothing else on his public schedule. you know he is going to be very, very business behind the scenes. the briefing today will be at 12:30. it will be held today by deputy presses...
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>> all right, well, it appears certainly that mitt romney is going to win tonight. you will find out momentarily on "countdown" whether that happened or not. he is set to speak about halfway through the hour, don't miss that. the war room after that, and then we come back for another young turks florida primary coverage. it's an awesome night of elections on current. "countdown" is next.
>> all right, well, it appears certainly that mitt romney is going to win tonight. you will find out momentarily on "countdown" whether that happened or not. he is set to speak about halfway through the hour, don't miss that. the war room after that, and then we come back for another young turks florida primary coverage. it's an awesome night of elections on current. "countdown" is next.
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he has been consistent on talking about real opportunity, not mitt romney opportunity. >> right. >> and he is consistent about this fair share, fair shot but what he is proposing is not at the scale -- when you have state universities which need the support and investment, they are dying. >> a couple of things are converging. you have the interest rate on student debt and two, default rates increasing and 50% unemployment or underemployment of kids coming out of college. all of this is a long-term crisis, and we haven't confronted the issue how do you pay for higher education lorj term. >> that's right. >> social security a report came out they will run out of funs in 2030. what is your response to that? and remember the group that pout this report is bipartisan. >> yeah -- we talked about it social security is not in crisis. it does not relate to our deficit. it is funded differently. with a few modest adjustments like lifting the cap so that the wealthier pay more -- >> i want to explain this you and i who -- for -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> they don't get taxed -- they don't contri
he has been consistent on talking about real opportunity, not mitt romney opportunity. >> right. >> and he is consistent about this fair share, fair shot but what he is proposing is not at the scale -- when you have state universities which need the support and investment, they are dying. >> a couple of things are converging. you have the interest rate on student debt and two, default rates increasing and 50% unemployment or underemployment of kids coming out of college. all...
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so mitt romney was right in a way. there is a large percentage of the country that is subsidized by government. only his number was just too low. it is really not 47%. it is 100%. he just doesn't want his voters to think of themselves that way. and joining me inside "the war room" for ain sight on the 100% is journalist michael grunwald, the author of the new new deal, the hidden story of change in the obama era. he's also "time" magazine's senior national correspondent and haase the author of this week's cover story one nation subsidized under god. how big government underwrites your life. so glad you're inside "the war room." thank you for helping to illustrate this important issue. >> thank you for having me. >> jennifer: you bet. i was interested you had sent out a tweet. you wrote i get a mortgage deduction, child care deduction benefits tax-deferred 3401k business expenses up the with a zoo. -- up the wazoo. it is perfectly timed for your article and what romney had said, i'm sure you didn't plan it that way on p
so mitt romney was right in a way. there is a large percentage of the country that is subsidized by government. only his number was just too low. it is really not 47%. it is 100%. he just doesn't want his voters to think of themselves that way. and joining me inside "the war room" for ain sight on the 100% is journalist michael grunwald, the author of the new new deal, the hidden story of change in the obama era. he's also "time" magazine's senior national correspondent and...
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romney. >> romney drops out tomorrow and it's between gingrich and santorum. [ laughter ] >> all right. thank you everybody. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? singing in the sunshine state. ♪ america america. god shed his grace on thee. ♪ >> romney serenades supporters while he is ahead by a wide margin but newt gingrich whistles a different tune. >> six months. unless romney drops out. >> the polls are closed and the results are rolling in with analysis from elliott spitse and live from florida with craig crawford, countdown's david shuster, coverage of the 2012 florida primary begins now! ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ >> good evening. it's an exciting night. good to have you with us. thanks for joining us tuesday january 31st 281 days until the 2012 presidential election. i am bill press sitting in for keith olbermann. this is our "countdown" coverage of the 2012 g.o.p. florida primary and what you want to know at this hour. cnn, fox and msnbc have all called the florida primary for mitt romney. no surprise there. maybe the only surprise is they call
romney. >> romney drops out tomorrow and it's between gingrich and santorum. [ laughter ] >> all right. thank you everybody. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? singing in the sunshine state. ♪ america america. god shed his grace on thee. ♪ >> romney serenades supporters while he is ahead by a wide margin but newt gingrich whistles a different tune. >> six months. unless romney drops out. >> the polls are closed and the results...
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bush had trouble with. >> eliot: you're right. romney came across as smart. that's what affected it. doug, my question was every time i heard the $5 trillion gig, why did the president not turn to him and say if you do not plan to add a $5 trillion revenue loss what loopholes will you close? give us the broad brush outlines because without that, you don't have credibility. it would have seemed to me to be the appropriate response. >> absolutely. he could have just kept pressing him and i -- before the debate, my whole view was the president needs to spend little bit of time on defense and then just go on the offense. because mitt romney is so vulnerable to attacks not only on his current policies but on his previous policies and in being a flip-flopper and certainly his time as a businessman which really didn't come up that much which was surprising. certainly the president didn't press it but you didn't hear a lot about mitt romney talking about and bragging about how he created jobs because he knew he was vulnerable there. you didn't hear a lot about his ti
bush had trouble with. >> eliot: you're right. romney came across as smart. that's what affected it. doug, my question was every time i heard the $5 trillion gig, why did the president not turn to him and say if you do not plan to add a $5 trillion revenue loss what loopholes will you close? give us the broad brush outlines because without that, you don't have credibility. it would have seemed to me to be the appropriate response. >> absolutely. he could have just kept pressing him...
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is mitt romney doing something right or barack obama is doing something wrong? >> first i all i want to point out, this poll, i don't know how much weight we can give to it because it was taken over the holiday weekend, a time that pollsters try to avoid. and it's an anomaly to have this type of jump in this type of a statistic. women are growing weary on the war on women and obama has been hammering the same points home about lily ledbetter and healthcare while romney is saying i know what women care about, it's the economy. we had a negative report and the it has to do with the fact that they trust him more than barack obama on the economy. >> michael: if it's about jobs and the economy president obama has a record of effectiveness on women's issues. lily ledbetter, if i was the president i would talk about it every day as i'm sure he is doing in front of women. what beyond that. mitt romney can say that women don't care about social issues which i think is ridiculous. i think you would agree laura. what does the president focus on with the female audience? >>
is mitt romney doing something right or barack obama is doing something wrong? >> first i all i want to point out, this poll, i don't know how much weight we can give to it because it was taken over the holiday weekend, a time that pollsters try to avoid. and it's an anomaly to have this type of jump in this type of a statistic. women are growing weary on the war on women and obama has been hammering the same points home about lily ledbetter and healthcare while romney is saying i know...
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romney said in the first 100 days he would let wall street right the wronged rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put you back in chains. that's. >> cenk: that's a bit. and awkward. then later he said you're going to help us win north carolina. oh joe. this time do they backpedal? >> i know i am sometimes criticizing for saying exactly what i mean. it's not going to change. >> cenk: damn, right in your face. what is happening big guy? now they're not done yet. then the obama campaign says, governor romney's comments tonight seemed unhinged. they're doubling down, man. now, republicans say do you see how dirty they are? giving us a hit like that, poor little republicans, we wouldn't say anything hateful at all. you know, shark week is coming up on discovery. let's see if we can spot sharks on the campaign trail and whether it would be dirty at all. >> if any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to medicare it's programbarack obama. he has no idea how the american system functions. he spent his early years in hawai'i smoking something
romney said in the first 100 days he would let wall street right the wronged rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put you back in chains. that's. >> cenk: that's a bit. and awkward. then later he said you're going to help us win north carolina. oh joe. this time do they backpedal? >> i know i am sometimes criticizing for saying exactly what i mean. it's not going to change. >> cenk: damn, right in your face. what is happening big guy? now they're not done yet. then the...
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so does mitt romney's strategy of saying one thing and then right afterward have his campaign walk it back actually work? alan schroeder is a professor at northeastern university, the author of presidential debates 50 years of high-risk tv. professor, glad to welcome you back into "the war room." is team romney's little two-step with the truth effective? >> you know, unfortunately, i think that strategy is sort of effective and here's the analogy i would use. it's like the newspaper article that gets something wrong. everybody reads the story and gets the mistake in version of what happened but the correction that comes out the next day is on page 35 in a little box and nobody sees it. and so that's what happens here. it really has to get corrected during the debate and that was the job of course of barack obama and for whatever reason, he didn't do it. >> jennifer: let it go means that you end up missing the opportunity to set the record straight in front of 50 million people. we talked about this last night. -- last time, whether it is a better strategy to spend your time rebutting
so does mitt romney's strategy of saying one thing and then right afterward have his campaign walk it back actually work? alan schroeder is a professor at northeastern university, the author of presidential debates 50 years of high-risk tv. professor, glad to welcome you back into "the war room." is team romney's little two-step with the truth effective? >> you know, unfortunately, i think that strategy is sort of effective and here's the analogy i would use. it's like the...
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and these are people who have been top surrogates for romney. >> right. right. and i will say that is the silver lining in the horrible tragedy, is you have both sides really working together and very closely, and we don't have to throw stones either way. we can just celebrate that. unfortunately it has taken this to create that but both sides are working together seemingly very well and hopefully the folks on the east coast will get some relief. >> stephanie: we have had other obama surrogates on, and why are our surrogates so much hotter than theirs including you. >> i was about to say i will take myself out of that, and just appreciate their hotness -- >> stephanie: and we will put you right back in. >> yes, what i think we're missing is an actual statistical breakdown of our surrogate hotness. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it's a landslide. ben, we can't say it enough get out and vote, we have your website posted. any other tips for us? >> no, you have to understand your local election rules. in many, many states obviously early voting has been going on for a l
and these are people who have been top surrogates for romney. >> right. right. and i will say that is the silver lining in the horrible tragedy, is you have both sides really working together and very closely, and we don't have to throw stones either way. we can just celebrate that. unfortunately it has taken this to create that but both sides are working together seemingly very well and hopefully the folks on the east coast will get some relief. >> stephanie: we have had other...
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. >> immigration -- >> right. >> climate change romney care afghanistan, right. so do you think he decided it was more important for him to present the romney likability stories rather than go after policy? >> absolutely. because number 1 on policy, quite frankly there are not a lot of differences -- at least in terms of what we have actually been told on where romney stands on policy. there are not a lot of differences between mitt romney and barack obama with the exception of romney wanting to appeal health care but also the american public wants to like their american leaders. let's face it, their favorability and likability ratings are abysmally low. no one knows who mitt romney is, and liking his wife is not enough to get him elected president of the united states, so he had to start off where he did, which was reforming and explaining the damage that has been done to the republican party and letting us know who he is. without doing that the next six weeks are completely unimportant to him. so we expect to see a little bit of a bump. one of the things i want
. >> immigration -- >> right. >> climate change romney care afghanistan, right. so do you think he decided it was more important for him to present the romney likability stories rather than go after policy? >> absolutely. because number 1 on policy, quite frankly there are not a lot of differences -- at least in terms of what we have actually been told on where romney stands on policy. there are not a lot of differences between mitt romney and barack obama with the...
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but i think that's the strongest ad that santorum has been hitting romney with. >> right, there was an inoculation ad because he doesn't have the resources to go up against the romney play. i am curious about your projection for michigan. so in light of what you saw in your poll, are you projecting a romney victory? >> i think it's a little early to project. we are going to do a couple of more polls later on this week. if you take a look at the sum total of all of the polls that have been done there has been some significant movement i think, over the past week towards romney. if that movement continues -- and normally, if one candidate's out spending another candidate by a 2 to 1 margin, then that trend ought to continue, but you have got a debate coming up tomorrow night, and you've got a big speech romney is going to make at ford field, the football stadium so there are a lot of intervening events between now and election day. >> there has been some discussion, steve, about there % is a call on the part of daily kos, for example for democrats to play in the republican primary. if th
but i think that's the strongest ad that santorum has been hitting romney with. >> right, there was an inoculation ad because he doesn't have the resources to go up against the romney play. i am curious about your projection for michigan. so in light of what you saw in your poll, are you projecting a romney victory? >> i think it's a little early to project. we are going to do a couple of more polls later on this week. if you take a look at the sum total of all of the polls that...
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>> yeah, the romney boys just seem a lot younger. >> stephanie: all right. speaking of lies those who tell them, would you like some of the -- you might want to load the liar cannon wow -- you got to hand it to mittens. [ applause ] >> stephanie: this debate he crammed 31 lies into 40 minutes. >> wow, a personal best. >> stephanie: he said i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program going. ♪ lie, lie lie, why must you be such a fat liar ♪ >> stephanie: he went prell grants for his hair. >> they don't even make prell anymore. >> stephanie: he would cut pell grants for a million college students. oh it's called a chance for every child [ bell chimes ] >> stephanie: he said he would reverse the money in pell grant funding. >> stephanie: i have a plan that gives america 12 million jobs. ♪ lie lie, lie, liar ♪ >> stephanie: that got four pinocchios. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: the post expressed incredibility at the claim. really, "washington post"? >> shocking. >> stephanie: none of the oil production came on federal land. 14% is a
>> yeah, the romney boys just seem a lot younger. >> stephanie: all right. speaking of lies those who tell them, would you like some of the -- you might want to load the liar cannon wow -- you got to hand it to mittens. [ applause ] >> stephanie: this debate he crammed 31 lies into 40 minutes. >> wow, a personal best. >> stephanie: he said i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program going. ♪ lie, lie lie, why must you be such a fat liar ♪ >>...
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all right. maybe the romney/ryan naval solution isn't quite that antiquated. still, they say the darnedest things, don't they? as for us, time to batten down the hatches. there will be giants to slay! >> jennifer: well, at last night's debate, mitt romney did seem kind of hard-pressed to come up with any real criticism of the obama administration's foreign policy positions. as our own john fuglesang here at current tv, he put it so wonderfully, it was as if romney were introducing the me, too doctrine. so how much does mitt romney support the president's foreign policy? well, let me count the ways. he agrees with the president's proposed 2014 withdrawal from afghanistan. he agrees with putting sanctions on iran. and he agrees with the president's handling of the iraq war. and the drone strikes and targeted killings in pakistan. but one place the candidates do diverge is on spending. here's what that looks like when you put the two plans side by side. president obama would honor the department of defense's request that defense spending be 3.3% of gross domestic
all right. maybe the romney/ryan naval solution isn't quite that antiquated. still, they say the darnedest things, don't they? as for us, time to batten down the hatches. there will be giants to slay! >> jennifer: well, at last night's debate, mitt romney did seem kind of hard-pressed to come up with any real criticism of the obama administration's foreign policy positions. as our own john fuglesang here at current tv, he put it so wonderfully, it was as if romney were introducing the me,...
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mitt romney did not have to go this extreme right to fire up the base in my opinion. jerry from liberty maine. what do you say jerry? >> caller: hey, bill. nice to talk to you. thank god for current tv. kudos to al gore and your show is great by the way. >> bill: thank you. >> caller: here's what i think about ryan. first, he was handpicked, groomed and indoctrinated by the heritage foundation. he's been pushing their agenda from day one. number one. number two look, this guy is against saving a woman's life in the cases of a medical necessary abortion. >> bill: right. doesn't care. >> caller: doesn't give a damn about that. one other thing i want to throw out there real quick is romney. you know, i think people ought to be aware of the fact that this guy is just an empty suit. he's full of nothing other than the desire to be president. he has no plan other than hating obama but here's what scares me. he's surrounding himself with these neocons and he will be jumping through their hoops, the same one that -- he surrounded himself with bushies. i don't think that gets
mitt romney did not have to go this extreme right to fire up the base in my opinion. jerry from liberty maine. what do you say jerry? >> caller: hey, bill. nice to talk to you. thank god for current tv. kudos to al gore and your show is great by the way. >> bill: thank you. >> caller: here's what i think about ryan. first, he was handpicked, groomed and indoctrinated by the heritage foundation. he's been pushing their agenda from day one. number one. number two look, this guy...
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i mean, so important right mark what--i just don't even know how romney explains it if in fact, he even--you would have thought he would be double digit victory. so i'm sure that santorum will play it even if he loses the popular vote that romney should have been double digits ahead. and if romney losses, is the game over? is it won't be game over. >> it's not game over, but as david was saying, he already has a ready explanation. not only are the democrats urging the democrats to get into that primary vote, but rick santorum is doing the robo call to dentals democrats urging them to call call. >> in fact, we have it right here. i would love the view tours listen. take a listen to this robo call. >> right, michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important? romney supported the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. s that was a slap in the face of every michigan workers and we're not going to let romney get away with it. >> ironically at the tail end that have it says that it is paid for by the santorum camp
i mean, so important right mark what--i just don't even know how romney explains it if in fact, he even--you would have thought he would be double digit victory. so i'm sure that santorum will play it even if he loses the popular vote that romney should have been double digits ahead. and if romney losses, is the game over? is it won't be game over. >> it's not game over, but as david was saying, he already has a ready explanation. not only are the democrats urging the democrats to get...
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>> jennifer: right. karl an article that was in "politico" today actually lays the blame of mitt romney's flailing candidacy solely at mitt romney's feet. do you agree with that? >> in part. if mitt romney's, you know message that's getting out there -- i think his big mistake was thinking he could push this extremely conservative agenda and get elected president. but he is only reflects the modern republican party that is controlled by the tea party at the moment. and that's one of the reasons he is having such troubles this time around. >> jennifer: yeah i think the effort to blame mitt romney for this is part of the scapegoating beginning right now. the republican party is to blame for the ridiculous positions that the mitt romney platform and the republican party platform holds. now let me ask you, cheryl because we're seeing some excitement in iowa with this early voting. we know that ohio will start early voting next week. that enthusiasm is boding well for democrats. however, we also know in ohio
>> jennifer: right. karl an article that was in "politico" today actually lays the blame of mitt romney's flailing candidacy solely at mitt romney's feet. do you agree with that? >> in part. if mitt romney's, you know message that's getting out there -- i think his big mistake was thinking he could push this extremely conservative agenda and get elected president. but he is only reflects the modern republican party that is controlled by the tea party at the moment. and...
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somebody is going to lower thank guns right on top of mitt romney's head. who is it going to be? tweet us to give us your guess. currenttventtv
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boy, everything's going bad for romney right now. did you see the story? [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] paul ryan photo president. not only was it exposed for the phony photo op it was cleaning already clean dishes, the president said he didn't have permission. they broke in there for the photo op. we're nonpartisan. wouldn't do this for anybody. talk about all of the air going out of the romney/ryan balloon yesterday. [ wah wah ] >> nonprofits are not allowed to -- >> stephanie: that's what he said. >> that destroys their chances of getting fundingde or the other. they just play it all sides. >> stephanie: by the way, how american president did the president go. seriously, all of my dreams are coming through. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] he did say he's the president. i'm andrew shepherd -- assault weapons ban. right out of a movie. [ applause ] come on. this was commander in chiefy. >> and the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether secretary of state our u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own g
boy, everything's going bad for romney right now. did you see the story? [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] paul ryan photo president. not only was it exposed for the phony photo op it was cleaning already clean dishes, the president said he didn't have permission. they broke in there for the photo op. we're nonpartisan. wouldn't do this for anybody. talk about all of the air going out of the romney/ryan balloon yesterday. [ wah wah ] >> nonprofits are not allowed to -- >>...
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but when the chips were down right before the florida presidential debate it was newt gringrich or romney, and romney came up big in that debate. over all the last couple of weeks i think you have to definitely have to give the campaign edge to obama just because eric ferhstrom had that mandate penalty tax, and they were all over the place on that. and republicans stepped all over on the congressional republicans who came out of that supreme court ruling saying it's clearly a tax and that divided them. but i think this race is so close that whoever runs the better campaign is going to win this, and you don't say that every presidential election year year. >> cenk: bob cusack from the hill. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> cenk: all right, now when we come back, really surprising news about president obama and the naacp convention. why is he pulling out of it? who is going to repolice him? interesting details on that when we return. >> i know that my husband stands where he is today because of this organization. >>we talk a lot about the influence of money in po
but when the chips were down right before the florida presidential debate it was newt gringrich or romney, and romney came up big in that debate. over all the last couple of weeks i think you have to definitely have to give the campaign edge to obama just because eric ferhstrom had that mandate penalty tax, and they were all over the place on that. and republicans stepped all over on the congressional republicans who came out of that supreme court ruling saying it's clearly a tax and that...
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you're right. romney was going to let the industry go. he understands that. >> jennifer: that's why -- he he -- >> john: on the same day when walter describe said that mitt romney has nothing in down with his father, i thought it was telling this is one of the high points of the debate. a debate filled with high points. again, the gun control issue. i was a bit disappointed in. i would have liked some specifics on immigration, i think the president -- almost got mitt romney to say he sort of supported him. >> jennifer: i thought he did say that. he supported -- i don't want your kids to have to go -- >> eliot: he would not revoke what the president has done with respect to -- amnesty is not the word he would use. give deportations to kids. >> jennifer: what clarity did he provide about immigration reform? >> eliot: nothing but fog on the issue. they were using language to be interpreted. >> john: mitt romney completely avoided whether he would support the legislation. >> jennifer: binders of women he brought to his office. that was his an
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suddenly this is harry reid's welcome home gift from mitt romney diving right back into the tax issue. what motivates this. why now? what do you make of it? >> it is a big pie in the face for mitt romney. at the end of a trip where he's been stumbling on banana peels tripping over skates in his path. it is a whole trip that's been nothing but -- to come home to yet another one. this is probably the ultimate of unforced errors. harry reid very much is putting out the democratic message here. he's doing what i think is kind of interesting in borrowing a page from the republicans' handbook in that he's placing allegation there not substantiating it but saying hey, this is out there. i wonder what's behind it. it almost reminds me a lot of what the birther nonsense was about in which people were constantly asking for obama's birth certificate. i take him at his word he's an american but really we want to know was he born here or not. so it is kind of interesting that all of this is going on. i think that if the white house is not implicit in this, i don't have any evidence to suggest that
suddenly this is harry reid's welcome home gift from mitt romney diving right back into the tax issue. what motivates this. why now? what do you make of it? >> it is a big pie in the face for mitt romney. at the end of a trip where he's been stumbling on banana peels tripping over skates in his path. it is a whole trip that's been nothing but -- to come home to yet another one. this is probably the ultimate of unforced errors. harry reid very much is putting out the democratic message...